The cosmography of paradise
Subtitle: the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe
By: edited by Alessandro Scafi
Contributors: Warburg Institute; Cosmography of paradise (2009 : London, England)
Series: Warburg Institute colloquia -- 27; Warburg Institute colloquia -- 27.
Publisher: The Warburg Institute; Warburg Institute
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781908590503
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Cosmography; Congresses; Early works to 1500; Paradise; Paradies; Kunst
Notes: "The colloquium The cosmography of paradise : the other world from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Europe took place in London on the 4th, 5th and 6th March 2009"--page xv.

"The core group of contributors gave papers at the Warburg colloquium in March 2009...This publication includes contributions from scholars who did not participate in the colloquium"--page xv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of paradise : to early Christianity via Greece, Persia and Israel  -- Jan N. Bremmer; title: Sumerian paradise lost  -- Markham J. Geller; title: Around, inside and beyond the walls : names, ideas and images of Paradise in pre-Islamic Iran  -- Antonio C.D. Panaino /; title: Enoch, Eden, and the beginnings of Jewish cosmography  -- Annette Yoshiko Reed; title: Gnostic paradises  -- Einar Thomassen; title: Diabolizing the Garden of Eden : re-interpretations of Jewish pseudepigraphy in medieval Christian dualism  -- Yuri Stoyanov; title: Seeking paradise in the Egyptian desert  -- Dimitris J. Kyrtatas; title: Gazing at the holy mountain : images of paradise in Syriac Christian tradition  -- Sergey Minov; title: Food and the senses, and one very special taste of paradise  -- Danuta Shanzer; title: "The heavens declare the glory of God" : mapping cosmos and activating heaven through holy icons  -- Veronica della Dora; title: Paradise in western medieval tradition  -- Rudolf Simek; title: Paradise in the Islamic religious imagination  -- Christian Lange; title: In medieval Islamic cosmography, where is paradise? -- Emilie Savage-Smith /-- Valhalla and heaven : Scandinavian images of paradise in a period of religious change /-- Anders Hultegård.